In January 2009, Deleted Scenes' debut album Birdseed Shirt came out on Brooklyn label What Delicate Recordings.
Pitchfork awarded the album with an 8.0, calling it "ferocious, brave, and a well-balanced demonstration of both thoughtful existentialism and strange, drowsy downers.
The resulting album, released by Sockets Records in 2011 and re-released by Park the Van in 2012, "balances out the group's experimental impulses with an uncanny knack for pop hooks,"[1] according to Paste.
In his 7.8 review for Pitchfork, Aaron Leitko praised Scheuerman's "gift for distilling complex thought into everyday language".
[4]" In March 2013, Deleted Scenes began recording sessions in Philadelphia, PA with Brian McTear and Jon Low, a production duo who have worked with Kurt Vile, Sharon Van Etten, The War on Drugs, and The National.